Sterilization

After hearing about the forced sterilizations of poor or people that are not smart, I was personally shocked at some of the facts and stories that I heard.  Hispanic, latino and other women that were found to be using, or thought to be using, the welfare system for money were forced, convinced, or just had the sterilization surgery performed on them without them knowing is just wrong and shocking to me.  Women being asked if they wanted the surgery while they were in extreme amounts of pain during labor and they gave consent to it, only because they were in an extreme amount of pain.  

Some arguments for the sterilization of these people were that it would improve and/or help overall public health by not allowing people with mental diseases and/or illnesses to reproduce.  Personally, I would have to say that that is a horrible way of looking at that "problem" if you even call that a problem, people with mental health problems cannot help it, they had no choice, they were born with their illnesses.

I would have to say that I agree with the court case that says spanish women and other non-native speaking people know exactly what they are giving consent to, and to not have it done to people, without them knowing what is being done to them.  What was done to the poor, and non-native english speaking women in the past was a horrible thing to do, and I am glad that it does not happen anymore.